Commentary: There are ways to reduce gun fatalities

8:14 AM,
Sep. 23, 2013

Written by

Dick Hughes

This is a radical column, so prepare to be offended. All I ask is that you read the entire piece before firing angry missives in my direction.

So here goes. In the aftermath of yet another massacre, this time at the Washington Navy Yard, shouldn't we all be asking the same question: Why do Americans perpetuate a society in which thousands of people are killed every year with firearms­-most of them through suicides, mishaps or individual crimes-and in which every few months there is another mass shooting?

This is not an indictment of guns. It is an indictment of the American people. Of ...